Testimony of Healing March 24, 1934 Issue

I cannot find words to express the joy that came to me...

Myrtle McLendon

I cannot find words to express the joy that came to me five years ago when, after several months of treatment from a practitioner, and earnest reading from the Bible and Science and Health, I glimpsed the truth that Jesus said would make us free.

For over two years I had been in a condition of seemingly hopeless insanity. To mortal sense the condition was too horrible for words. The problem of being I could not understand; my thoughts seemed to be paralyzed on the subject of death. I thought because I had rebelled so bitterly against death that I was doomed to an eternal torment. I was an earnest believer in God and had been all my life, but I could not understand why He should afflict His children with disease. I saw no other source from which this state could come, as I believed that all things came from God. According to medical belief, I was also the victim of a so-called incurable disease. However, I had no thought of physical healing—my one desire was to learn the truth about God and man. I prayed day and night as best I knew how. At that time I was confined to a hospital for the insane.

One morning I found a Christian Science Sentinel lying on a bench in the yard of the hospital. This Sentinel was indeed a precious gift from my heavenly Father, a direct answer to prayer, for it was through this Sentinel, and through a friend who was a patient in the hospital, that I began seeking help through Christian Science. I had the most earnest desire for treatment, and God opened up a way for me. I asked to be dressed and taken to a practitioner; I had to cover my face as I rode through the streets, but nothing could lessen my determination to see the practitioner. When I reached her office she met me with the words: "There is comfort and healing for you;" and I was filled with wonderful hope and strength. Although I could not understand how my condition could be relieved, I firmly believed that "with God all things are possible."